How to do a not condition

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How to do a not condition

Postby gquiring » Sat May 21, 2005 9:37 am

I am trying to find files based on the word HOUSE and want to exclude HOUSEWIFE. I tried house ^housewife^ but it does not work. What is the syntax for a NOT condition.
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Postby Kiltme » Mon May 23, 2005 3:59 pm

Newsbin doensn't have one. The find filters are only positive.

So you could try "house " or "house\."
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Postby itimpi » Mon May 23, 2005 5:01 pm

If you do it via a filter profile, then you have the ability have both reject and accept filters. In effect that would bypass trying to do the not condition in the regular expression.
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